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- Title
Effectiveness of an interactive platform, and the ESC/HFA heartfailurematters.org website in patients with heart failure: design of the multicentre randomized e-Vita heart failure trial.
- Authors
Wagenaar, Kim P.; Broekhuizen, Berna D. L.; Dickstein, Kenneth; Jaarsma, Tiny; Hoes, Arno W.; Rutten, Frans H.
- Abstract
Aims Electronic health support (e-health) may improve self-care of patients with heart failure (HF). We aim to assess whether an adjusted care pathway with replacement of routine consultations by e-health improves self-care as com- pared with usual care. In addition, we will determine whether the ESC/HFA (European Society of Cardiology/Heart Failure Association) website heartfailurematters.org (HFM website) improves self-care when added to usual care. Finally, we aim to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of these interventions. Methods A three-arm parallel randomized trial will be conducted. Arm 1 consists of usual care; arm 2 consists of usual care plus the HFM website; and arm 3 is the adjusted care pathway with an interactive platform for disease management (e-Vita platform), with a link to the HFM website, which replaces routine consultations with HF nurses at the outpatient clinic. In total, 414 patients managed in 10 Dutch HF outpatient clinics or in general practice will be included and followed for 12 months. Participants are included if they have had an established diagnosis of HF for at least 3 months. The primary outcome is self-care as measured by the European Heart Failure Self-care Behaviour scale (EHFScB scale). Secondary outcomes are quality of life, cardiovascular- and HF-related mortality, hospitalization, and its duration as captured by hospital and general practitioner registries, use of and user satisfaction with the HFM website, and cost-effectiveness. Perspective This study will provide important prospective data on the impact and cost-effectiveness of an interactive platform for disease management and the HFM website.
- Subjects
EUROPE; NETHERLANDS; HEART failure; MEDICAL care; PATIENTS; QUALITY of life; STATISTICAL sampling; HEALTH self-care; DISEASE management; RANDOMIZED controlled trials
- Publication
European Journal of Heart Failure. Supplements, 2015, Vol 17, Issue 12, p1310
- ISSN
1567-4215
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ejhf.413